The Best Wi-Fi Routers: No More Dead Zones

The newest home mesh networks from Eero, Luma, Ubiquiti and Linksys use teams of access points to bathe your home in Wi-Fi. Geoffrey A. Fowler picks the best.

New mesh routers from Eero, Luma, Ubiquiti and Linksys use teams of access points to bathe large or hard-to-network homes in Wi-Fi. WSJ personal tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler puts them to the test in a three-story Victorian.

By

Geoffrey A. Fowler

In every home, some poor soul is responsible for keeping the internet running. The job is a lot like voodoo: Netflix conked out? Unplug the router, then plug it in again. Wi-Fi dead zone in the far room? Give those antennas a wiggle.

So I’ve got big news for you home tech-support personnel: You can stop faking it now. A significant overhaul of the router, that blinking box of frustration that beams wireless internet, is making Wi-Fi much, much better at covering an entire home. It’ll just cost you much, much more.